Two Important Ornithological Works by Henry Seebohm.
THE STANDARD WORK ON BRITISH BIRDS.
In Four Volumes, Royal 8vo, Cloth, with numerous Wood Engravings and Sixty-eight Coloured Plates, price £6, 6s., now £5, 5s. Net.
A History or British Birds.
To which is added the Author’s Notes on their Classification and Geographical Distribution; also Sixty-eight Coloured Plates of their Eggs. By Henry Seebohm, Author of “Siberia in Europe,” “Siberia in Asia,” &c. &c.
Saturday Review.—“The illustrations are as nearly perfect as the most careful colour-printing can produce, rivalling—and it is no slight praise—the admirable egg-pictures of Hewitson, some of which might almost have been executed by hand; and the book is written in an easy, pleasant style, redolent of the field rather than of the study.”
Zoologist.—“The text contains not only a description of each egg and its varieties, but also a very full account of the life-history of each bird.… If we may conceive the works of Yarrell and Hewitson rolled into one, with corrections, emendations, and important additions, and with woodcuts as well as coloured plates, such a work is Mr. Seebohm’s.”
Nature.—“We unhesitatingly express our opinion that since the time of Macgillivray no such original book as Mr. Seebohm’s has been published on British ornithology; we think that the figures of the eggs are by far the best that have yet been given.”